Ju ZsOm EOn EsBLo G: Blogging Style....& Penang Development.....

Short bursts of few ideas would be fine....Rather than my current lazy style of going through a few months with no posts and finally writing them all in one go...

Its a holiday today, Maulidur Rasul. So i get up early for a hike. Where else but the Botanical Gardens......

I get there at like 7.30am, and already my favourite parking spots have been taken up. Fine....So i go park further up. I get charged RM1. Why? Isn't it a public parking space? Why are these folks on motorbikes going around collecting money? There's this one guy collecting money CF (the girl who currently owns my heart) says looks like a 'hamsap lo'...

Anyway....i go hike. It takes me 20 minutes to hike to Stop#46 and i was like dying there. I did it too fast and too fast....My heart was going like some 200bpm....But that's not the point...My point is I am a KPC....and as the story goes on, you'll find out why....

I was driving home today and noticed this new Kompleks Penjaja coming up next to the apartments where Jerry stays. I was like, oh well, another building coming up in Penang for the 'greater good' of the Penang people. I have been passed there a few times and even one time while waiting to fetch Jerry i noticed the construction but it did not peak my interest.

So this time, I made a U-turn, parked my car close by and being the KPC that I am, walked around the construction site. Its all hidden up by zinc barriers and if you stood on the other side of the wall over at the apartments, you would not have a clear view too. How do the people know that you are really working then?

As I was leaving, I met Jerry and QF coming back from an early morning walk/hike/run. And so i took the opportunity to query him. Apparently, they (someone, probably that DUN who is no longer DUN) wanted to move all the outside hawker stalls currently located at the entrance of the Botanical Gardens into that Kompleks Penjaja. With that, they can extend the B.G. area. But, that would mean......

- Lost of parking spaces closer to the B.G. gate
- Hamsap Lo and his gang of money collectors would have either less or no money to collect
- People can't seat outside kopitiams or at road side an enjoy thosai, roti or milo

I remembered New World Park. Before New World Park, there was Swatow Lane, where all, and I really mean all the food was delicious & tasty. Now that it has moved into a modern complex with all the modern facilities, the food has become so-so.....see here: http://chen22.blogspot.com/2007/02/new-world-park.html

Is this going to end up like that but in a smaller scale? Jerry says the construction started just before the elections. It was probably approved and will go on. But those who sucks at the DUN job are no longer there after March 8th elections. Now, his apartment will have a hawker center next to it, i won't get to enjoy that good outdoor thosai watching people walk by. That piece of land....it used to be land for parking with some nice plants and flower pots surrounding.

They should have left it that way......Where do i park now if they take away the other parking spots? Why QKH?? Is this necessary? Put everything in a hawker stall so they don't hawk no more. It doesn't reflect the genuineness of Penang & Kebun Bunga....